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This reminds me of the Great Digg Migration.

If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.

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> If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.

Neither Mastodon nor ActivityPup are a real replacement for the use case of Reddit. They serve very different purposes.

I think both support the use cases of browsing, sharing, and discussing content pretty well. They just have different ways of categorizing and moderating content.

Why do you think ActivityPub can't be used to implement a reddit clone? There's already 2 projects doing it reasonably successfully.

> If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.

make sure you spell it correctly if you do, though

Mastodon is more of a Twitter replacement, no?

Indeed. It can however interact with Lemmy and kbin, which are direct Reddit replacements.

All three use federated groups:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/groups-implementation/...

There are groups on Mastodon that you can join and follow.

I'm not overly familiar with Mastodon (hence the typo in my comment), but my understanding is that it's a place to browse, share, and discuss content. The UI does appear to be more like Twitter.

And the Slashdot migration before that. I we really compare what happened to Slashdot and then what happened to Digg, the parallels to what is happening to Reddit are obvious. I assume the result will be the same.

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